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    License plate capture on private driveway

    My Loryta IPC-B54IR-Z4E S3 (AndyCam) is my best LP camera. It should work great at 30-40 feet from the driveway. It has been reliable as a rock. It’s mounted on a short 4x4 post next to a tree. I painted it with two colors of Rustoleum camo paint so it kinda blends in. I also use a 2MP z12...
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    Dahua API Authentication From PowerShell

    Try adding the -AllowUnencryptedAuthentication parameter and try it. After all, the command is staying within your LAN, so it shouldn’t be an issue. Not sure why I don’t get that warning, though. Probably some setup thing in PowerShell.
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    Dahua API Authentication From PowerShell

    Did you try using the simple code I posted? Just substitute your username, password, etc. PowerShell seemed to need the PSCredential object and the SecureString form of the password to allow the login to the camera.
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    Dahua API Authentication From PowerShell

    No need to apologize! My biggest challenge is being a newbie to PowerShell, so I need to learn everything from ground level in an unfamiliar environment. I had considered programming this in Python, but I haven’t coded in Python in about 8 years, so II’m rusty there. At some point I’ll have my...
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    Dahua API Authentication From PowerShell

    I have gotten past my authentication hurdle. I used the following code: $user="admin" $password=ConvertTo-SecureString "mypassword" -AsPlainText -Force $psCred=New-Object PSCredential -ArgumentList ($user,$password) Invoke-WebRequest...
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    Dahua API Authentication From PowerShell

    Thanks for the responses. Had some family visits, so had to put this aside for a spell. I’ll post up what I get working when I get back to it tomorrow.
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    Dahua API Authentication From PowerShell

    ….Still no joy, despite trying @wittaj ‘s suggestion. It appears the problem lies within how PowerShell sends the request to the camera. I have progressed to where PowerShell will bring up its own authentication dialog, and, after I respond to it, then it will return a proper response object...
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    Dahua API Authentication From PowerShell

    I have a couple year old 5241 Z12 serving as a license plate camera. It periodically goes out of focus after the day/night configuration change triggered via Blue Iris. I am attempting to write a PowerShell script to query the camera’s focus setting and notify me if the value is incorrect. I...
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    CodeProject AI thinks a cat is a person?

    The way people dress today, even I might think that’s a person, wearing animal ears and a long, fake tail with white pants. As long as CPAI doesn’t identify me as a pig, I’m happy. As I’ve posted elsewhere, it often thinks that rabbits in our yard are birds, and I’m okay with that. I think...
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    Creating Timelapse

    Just check the box when you export
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    Creating Timelapse

    The easiest/best way might depend on how long a period of time you want to condense. It is possible to do it in the BI clip export GUI directly if you have video already captured in a .bvr file.
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    Arjun, where are ya?

    Showed this to my wife. She chuckled and said,”Now I want to see the one of all the guys who were the jocks in high school.”
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    Retirement Gift

    Congratulations on your retirement! Your work buds sure think a lot of you as evidenced by those gifts!
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    Camera newbie - Want's a cloudless setup

    My i7-6700 with 14 cameras (connected monitor not powered) plus a POE switch powering 2 of those cameras plus an old Linksys router running as an access point is using 47 watts.
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    Harley sales keep declining.....

    I rode a bagger for about 15 years, mostly commuting to work. One day there was a late work dinner. On the ride home on a dark, twisty road, I misjudged my entry speed into a turn (I actually thought I was further from that particular turn than I was) and thought I was gonna get hurt. But my MSF...
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    Camera placement, models

    I’m using a z12E to look down the road on my property that leads to the majority of my land. Chose that one after a woman we don’t know came onto our property and headed down there, then left. I wanted to be sure I could identify at about 85 ft if it happened again, and I wasn’t confident the Z4...
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    how to partially light up a yard

    If I was looking for a brighter image I could adjust it to be brighter, but then an animal running past would be more of a ghostly blur. It all depends on what you want to see. Others here are using using cameras that produce a color image with fairly low level visible light. With the IR, human...
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    how to partially light up a yard

    Here’s an example. Two coyotes passing by my chicken coop while its occupants snooze on their roosts.No lighting here at all except for the camera’s IR.
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    ipcamtalk forum software spontaneously rejecting users’ email

    I was able to successfully switch back to my iCloud email address after it had been rejected.
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    3241T-ZAS - Cat detected as a Human

    Just last night, CPAI told me that a person was spotted in my back yard. It was a cat.
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    ipcamtalk forum software spontaneously rejecting users’ email

    Posting here because there doesn’t seem to be a forum related to forum issues. About a week ago, I lost posting and attachment viewing privileges because the forum software couldn’t reach or verify (I don’t recall the exact wording of the banner) the email address that I’ve been registered with...
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    Having Issues gettting one specific camera to trigger motion

    Terminology is important. You say it “detects motion” but “never triggers.” In BI, detecting motion is a trigger; an alert follows a trigger when alert conditions are satisfied. Maybe post screenshots of your trigger and alert settings for the camera.
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    Chainsaws (Gas/Battery/Corded)???

    It all depends on how much wood you intend to cut yourself. Will you be felling trees? How large in diameter? I‘m a fan of the Stihl pro series saws. My wife loves her MS192 C rear handle saw, and it’s light way and powerful for up to 6-8” or so. Will handle larger, but the bigger stuff is dealt...
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    Giving up on PC + Blue Iris- should I try an NVR?

    Please don’t take this as pointing fingers or criticizing you, Starglow. It’s just something that I don’t understand. I am often puzzled by people who don’t seem to give a second thought to buying an NVR on the assumption that it’s software will do what they want, but are hesitant to purchase...
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    Outdoor wire recommendations for POE camera mount on remote part of house? Dumb idea?

    I did this with a camera to watch my back door. Just bought a 100 ft premade outdoor cable from Amazon, and attached it along the soffit using white zip ties and self adhesive anchors. The eaves shelter the cable from the sun and weather, and the white cable along the white soffit is not...
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    problem with BI ? or 5442 cams

    Need much more info for anyone to help you. Post up screenshots of your trigger, motion, and alerts settings dialog boxes.
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    Daylight Savings. How did everyone's cameras do?

    The net time log doesn’t record camera checks by default. You have to raise it up one level to record them. edit: go to net time settings and change logging level to verbose.
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    New BI setup, looking for recommendations..

    Because my 15 cameras are scattered across 4 buildings, I‘m using 5 TP-Link TL-SG108PE, 8 Port Gigabit PoE Switches. They’ve been very reliable, and will support VLANs if I ever get around to setting that up.
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    What motivated you to get started

    I should maybe add that the incident I described served as a model of what I wanted to “defend” against. If they were to try that today, I would have captured their license plate before they entered my property, and again where they were parked. I would also have got I’d quality photos of their...
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    What motivated you to get started

    My son had installed a couple of Nest cams at his very rural house and was pleased. So I installed a few, and thought it was cool that I could check on the outside of my house whenever I wanted to. Then I built a new workshop on my property. I was working in the building when I heard a noise...
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